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The homogenizing of America’s children begins at an early age in the public school system where everyone is told to color inside the lines, get in line, shut up, and accept everything the teacher says “just because.”

Though it is important to set the ground rules for society and preach the advantages of discipline, anyone who dares to display an iota of individuality is disciplined. As a result, society wrongfully expects everyone to graduate from high school and go to college.

The public school system started out of good intentions. It was a positive move by the government, securing a knowledgeable voter population, and creating many employable Americans who had attained life skills and the intellect needed for survival in post-industrial age America.

But this system has become a bureaucratic monster. Unlike the other three branches of government bureaucracies, the fourth branch isn’t in the limelight and its power often goes unchecked. These bureaucracies are a predatory beast; one that eats and breathes and grows until its nasty tentacles are wrapped around every facet of a free individual’s life.

As more and more administrators, unions, lawyers, and laws took over, common sense was abandoned in favor of a socialist school system. American children were forced to conform to a low standard, more money was put into union and bureaucrat pockets, and the choice of educating oneself was destroyed. It is no wonder so many college professors and school teachers consider themselves leftists, for only the modern liberal movement would condone such a fascist system that robs people of the right to educate their children in the way they see fit, not by some arbitrarily chosen national standard.

Young children are coerced to believe that every good person must be educated. Those who don’t get their degrees are stigmatized no matter how intelligent and resourceful they are. A GED will always be lower on the social scale than a high school diploma.

As a result of this assembly line education, people are funneled into colleges and universities, attempting to reach the awesome standard of the college degree. The standard has become so expected that society is bending over backwards to ensure that everyone has “access.” Affirmative action, grade inflation, lower standards, and huge subsidies funded by taxpayers have all been used to guarantee that everyone in society becomes an unquestioning student regardless of skills or worthiness.

Ironically, the result is not a society where individuals are treated equally, but the creation of a caste system based upon education instead of wealth. The janitors, longshoremen, carpenters, and construction workers are looked upon as lowly people who weren’t smart enough to join the decorated elite in their posh caps and gowns.

At least half of the students tricked into thinking that education is a necessity could have entered trade schools, apprenticeships, started their own businesses, or attained upwardly mobile entry level positions. These people, as well as society, would have benefited due to the creation of wealth and jobs. But because of a forced education and public standard, taxpayer money and valuable time are wasted learning things that often have no practical application outside of an academic setting.

Such an educational system creates a lingering impact on America’s future. Assembly line education has created too many professionals. America has become an economy of services instead of goods. We depend too much on foreign business for raw materials, and hardly develop any new technology. New capital is redistributed instead of created. Eventually our economy will become stagnant.

We can’t solely blame bureaucracy. The beast likes to reproduce. But since many graduates have public jobs that increase the beast’s size, one must wonder, where will America be when there is nothing left to feed it?